This morning.
Grogan’s, South William Street, Dublin 2.
Cartoonist, poet and painter Tom Mathews tucks into a book and a pint of plain.
Thanks Sauvignon Blanc
Féile ’93 via David Stephenson pic.twitter.com/TaUVCvwXtH
— RareIrishStuff (@RareIrishStuff) June 25, 2021
Usually involving warm cider.
Semple Stadium, Thurles, county Tipperary.
He’s going to miss mass.
Previously: Trip to Tipp on broadsheet
And you’ve been caught.
This afternoon.
Department of Agriculture, Dublin 2.
Extinction Rebellion partnered with some Irish farmers to hold a demonstration highlighting how the government is ‘complicit in encouraging constant growth within the agricultural sector, at the expense of the environment and small farmers’ quality of life’.
Meanwhile…
European Union negotiators have struck a deal on reforms to the bloc’s huge farming subsidy programme, introducing new measures aimed at protecting small farms and curbing agriculture’s environmental impact.
The deal ends a near three-year struggle over the future of the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
It will use up around a third of the EU’s 2021-2027 budget, spending €387bn on payments to farmers and support for rural development.
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NEW: No 10: “The Prime Minister has accepted the Health Secretary’s apology and considers the matter closed”.
🤨🤨🤨
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) June 25, 2021
This afternoon.
Squeaky bum time.
Earlier…
No wonder the Health Secretary has been too busy to come on my @talkradio show lately…@MattHancock’s secret affair with aide Gina Coladangelo is exposed after office snogs while Covid raged on https://t.co/qxJDCq2f4R pic.twitter.com/IzTJq2978i
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) June 25, 2021
This morning.
Good times.
Any excuse.
Meanwhile…
Never trust a PR man in pink trousers, or his squeeze. pic.twitter.com/vlA7eojdbg
— Onepercent (@Adenoughofit) June 25, 2021
Ah.
Meanwhile…
🇬🇧 #Hancock appointed his lover (Coladangelo) to the Board of Directors of the UK’s health ministry ( which only has 9 members). She gets public money for this role. This is a breach of the #MinisterialCode. He must #resign. pic.twitter.com/C7jlkc4R9F
— Trudy Harpham, PhD (@harphat) June 25, 2021
Um.
This day 83 years ago – 25 June 1938 – Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
Time magazine wrote of the event, “a Protestant President may help to persuade Northern Ireland that in a political union with Éire, no Protestant would have anything to fear.” pic.twitter.com/5mwcLVdWIU
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) June 25, 2021
1938.
Only his whiskers set him apart.
The votes are in.
Last week. from a suggestion by SOQ and with a €50 Golden Discs voucher redeemable in any Golden Discs store on offer, I asked for your favourite political song.
You answered in your dozens – providing a placard-filled playlist of agreeable sounding agitprop (thank you).
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley
Slightly Bemused writes:
“Can I mention Buffalo Soldier, which linked a specific struggle to a long-term ongoing one in a beautiful melody and incredible lyrics. All put so simply, but so provocatively.”
Runner-up:
Beasley Street by John Cooper Clarke
Fearganainm writes:
“41 years later and there are still places like Beasley Street all over the world. We could have had a Sráid (Phiaras) Béaslaí (or Béaslaigh) – we certainly have our own Beasley Streets.”
Winner:
Jesus Christ by Woody Guthrie
Harry writes:
“The late, great Woody Guthrie says it all about today’s Ireland and its neo-liberal politics.”
Nick says: Well done Harry and thanks all!
Last week: Win Nick’s Golden Voucher
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For your consideration.
Robocomedy from THisContent comedy troupe.
Writer and director Keith Jordan writes:
A sketch about the dangers of using drugs as a temporary relief from the agony of existence.
Starring Matthew McNicholas, George Cummins and Adam Traynor as ‘Blowbot’.
Behold: the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4254, aka, Messier 99. To wit:
This recently processed full galaxy portrait stretches over 70,000 light-years across M99. The sharp view is a combination of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared image data from the Hubble Space Telescope. About 50 million light-years distant toward the well-groomed constellation Coma Bernices, the face-on spiral is a member of the nearby Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Also cataloged as NGC 4254, a close encounter with another Virgo cluster member has likely influenced the shape of its well-defined, blue spiral arms.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble, Janice Lee; Processing & Copyright: Leo Shatz)